Soviet and Kazakh musician, conductor, Honored Artist of the Kazakh SSR, Honored Artist of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, professor.
Family.
Father - Dmytro Rutter, accountant; mother - Bohdana Levina; sister - Olena Rutter, violinist.
In 1973-1997, Valeriy Rutter worked as the chief conductor at the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of the Kazakh SSR and lived in Almaty.
In 1997, he emigrated and lived in Germany until the end of his life with his wife Lyudmila Rutter and children Dmitry and Alla.
Education.
1933 - Music School at the Kharkiv Conservatory, violin class (prof. Dobrzhynets I. V.)
1941 - Kharkiv Conservatory, evacuation
1943-1948 - Naval Faculty of the Leningrad Conservatory. Diploma with honors, officer's rank. Military conductor.
1948-1953 - Artistic Director of the Northern Fleet Ensemble.
1954-1959 - Leningrad Conservatory. Faculty of Theory and Composition (class of Prof. O. Dolzhansky). Musicologist. Conducting and Symphony Faculty (class of Prof. Yeltsin). Conductor of the symphony orchestra and opera.
Theaters and most significant productions
Chelyabinsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after M. I. Glinka
"The Tale of the Stone Flower - S. Prokofiev
"The Valley - D'Albert
"Lotus of Happiness" (ballet) - G. Mushel
"The Last Ball (ballet) - A. Biryukov
Kyrgyz State Opera and Ballet Theater (Frunze, now Bishkek)
"The Tale of Tsar Saltan" - N. Rimsky-Korsakov
"Optimistic Tragedy - O. Kholminov (premiere)
"Romeo, Juliet and the Darkness - K. Molchanov (premiere)
"The Oprichnik" - P. Tchaikovsky
"The Witch - V. Vlasov (premiere)
Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theater (Ufa)
"War with Salamanders" - V. Ouspensky (premiere)
"The Ulyanov Brothers - Yuri Maitus (premiere)
Tour with the Novosibirsk Opera House in Moscow
"Romeo and Juliet - S. Prokofiev
Concert program at the Palace of Congresses
Sverdlovsk Opera and Ballet Theater
"Vera Sheloga" and "The Pskov Girl" - N. Rimsky-Korsakov
"Mozart and Salieri - N. Rimsky-Korsakov
"Russian Woman" - K. Molchanov (premiere)
Tour with the Yerevan Opera House in Moscow
"Iolanta" - P. Tchaikovsky
"Leila and Medjnun - S. Balasanyan (Palace of Congresses)
Kazakh State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Abay (Almaty)
"Alpamys" - E. Rakhmadiev (premiere)
"Dudarai" - E. Brusilovsky
"Don Carlos - D. Verdi (Paris version with ballet scene)
"Dido and Aeneas - G. Purcell (premiere in the USSR)
"Joan of Arc at the stake" - A. Onegger (the first theatrical performance in the USSR)
"Man and Woman (ballet) - A. Onegger (premiere)
"Peasant Songs - G. Sviridov (premiere)
"Karagoz (ballet) - G. Zhubanova (premiere)
"Frescoes (ballet) - T. Minbayev (premiere)
"The Firebird" - I. Stravinsky
"Pulcinella - Igor Stravinsky (premiere)
"A Game of Cards" - I. Stravinsky
"Coffee Cantata" - J. S. Bach (first concert performance in Almaty)
